MOTOR MISHAPS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5294, 2 July 1928, Page 2

MOTOR MISHAPS.

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS.

DRIVERS UNINJURED.

There were no less than three local motor accidents on Saturday.

On Saturday morning a. heavy motor lorry, owned, by Mr, T. H. Watts, of Turua, was crossing the traffic bridge at the Puke when it collided! head-on with a Public' Works Department’s light lorry driven by Mr T. Gray. The two vehicles met on a narrow portion of the bridge, but Mr Gray, seeing the heavy lorry, and realising that the vehicles could not pass, was in the act of reversing his engine so as to back to one of the bays provided for vehicles passing, when his lorry was struck. The light lorry received a dented radiator, and other slight damage, while Mr Watts’ vehicle also ’received slight damage. .

When Mr and Mrs D. Marshall, of Tirohia, were driving to Paeroa. on Saturday afternoon they met with a mishap which, fortunately, was not of a serious nature. It appears that they were travelling behind another car, which suddenly turned into a gateway at Mr L. E. C.assrels’ Kaouiti farm. Without wa'ruing the car. which was drven by Mr G. Hayes, of Te Ar.oha, backed out on to the roadway quickly and struck Mr Marshall’s car near the bonnet. Both cars were extensively damaged. On Saturday evening a further mishap occurred on the Paeroa-Te Aroha road' in which two cars were rather extensively damaged. From information available it appears that one of the cars, the property of the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Hamilton, and driven by a .man named Smith, was travelling towards Paeroa when it drew off to the side of the road to permit of another car, going in the opposite direction, to pass. This driver also pulled to the side of the road, and in. their effort to give each other plenty of room they both went too far off the crown of the road and the tWo cars capsized.